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George Town, British Virgin Islands, January 14th, 2026, Chainwire Human Trader ProMint Claims Championship as AI Demonstrates Superior Risk Control Aster, the high-performance and privacy-focused on-chain trading platform backed by YZi Labs, has announced the final results of its “Human vs AI” live trading competition. Conducted over a two-week period under highly volatile market conditions, the event highlighted a clear contrast between discretionary human trading and AI-driven strategies. While individual human trader ProMint secured the top ranking with positive net profits, the human trading team as a whole recorded an overall ROI of -32.22%, reflecting significant performance dispersion across participants.…

Castries, Saint Lucia, January 14th, 2026, Chainwire PrimeXBT, a leading global crypto and CFD broker, has listed 40 new crypto futures trading pairs, significantly expanding its asset coverage across high-demand segments including AI, Layer-1 and Layer-2 networks, DeFi, Infrastructure, Meme tokens, NFT, Metaverse, and Payments. The expansion is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to provide traders with deeper market access, better liquidity, and cost-efficient trading conditions. The newly added markets include a curated selection of highly traded coins and tokens such as CELO, DASH, DYDX, EIGEN, SNX, ZK, ZRO, and emerging community and meme-driven assets. This batch also introduces…

Be’er Sheva, Israel, January 13th, 2026, Chainwire Fors, a prediction market aggregation platform built on Solana, today announced the release of its beta version, designed to address fragmentation and inefficiencies across modern prediction markets. Prediction markets covering multiple categories, including politics, sports, macroeconomic events, cryptocurrencies, and global developments, have expanded rapidly in recent years. However, market data, liquidity, and pricing remain fragmented across isolated platforms, making it difficult for participants to compare outcomes and identify inefficiencies efficiently. Fors addresses this challenge by aggregating multiple prediction venues into a single, unified interface. The platform normalizes probabilities, pricing, and liquidity, allowing users…

Senator Elizabeth Warren has raised concerns with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding the inclusion of cryptocurrencies in retirement plans, a decision recently supported by the Trump administration. Warren expressed that this move could potentially expose American retirement savers to increased fees, considerable financial losses, and reduced regulatory oversight. These concerns highlight the growing debate over the role of digital assets in long-term investment strategies. The SEC, responsible for regulating securities markets, evaluates various factors before approving new financial products. In the case of cryptocurrencies, the focus often includes ensuring market integrity, adequate surveillance-sharing agreements, and investor protection.…

World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance project linked to the family of US President Donald Trump, has entered the cryptocurrency lending market, highlighting renewed interest in onchain credit as regulatory clarity improves.The new product, called World Liberty Markets, launched on Monday and allows users to borrow and lend digital assets, according to a Bloomberg report. The platform is built around USD1, World Liberty’s US dollar–backed stablecoin, alongside its governance token, WLFI.Users can post collateral, including Ether (ETH), a tokenized version of Bitcoin (BTC) and major stablecoins such as USD Coin (USDC) and Tether (USDT). The platform is designed to support…

Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan has slammed the idea that Bitcoin shouldn’t be used for investment and 401(k)s because of its volatility — arguing that some stocks are also prone to even larger price swings. Hougan made the comments on the same day US Senator Elizabeth Warren pressed the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for answers on how it would mitigate risks involved in allowing crypto in retirement funds. In August last year, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Labor Department to reevaluate restrictions around alternative assets in defined-contribution plans, opening the door for cryptocurrencies…

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins said today that it remains unclear whether the U.S. government will move to seize the widely discussed Bitcoin holdings rumored to be tied to Venezuela, an uncertainty that comes as Washington seeks to bring greater regulatory clarity to digital asset markets. Atkins told Fox Business the question of pursuing the so‑called Venezuela Bitcoin stash — variously estimated at roughly 600,000 BTC, or about $56 billion to $67 billion at current prices — is “still to be seen” and is being handled by other parts of the administration.  “I leave that to others…

New data suggest that crypto content consumption is collapsing across platforms. Crypto-focused YouTube channels are seeing their weakest audience engagement in more than four years. New data revealed that the overall view counts have continued to slide. While crypto viewership is likely to return to 2021 levels eventually, experts do not expect a recovery this year. Retail Exodus Hits Crypto YouTube As per the latest data shared by analyst Benjamin Cowen, the 30-day moving average of views across dozens of major crypto YouTube channels has fallen to levels last seen in January 2021. The downturn is not limited to a…

In brief Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams launched the NYC token, claiming it would fund charitable causes. The token surged to a nearly $600 million market cap before crashing to over $1oo million. A wallet linked to the token deployer removed $2.43 million in USDC liquidity, added back $1.5 million, leaving $932,000 unaccounted for. A wallet linked to former New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ newly launched crypto token allegedly pocketed nearly $1 million through suspicious manipulation of a liquidity pool on Monday.The creator of the NYC token sent 80 million coins to an account that added the…

Chairman Tom Lee urges stockholders to vote YES to proposal #2 to support Bitmine’s goal of growing ETH per share Stockholders can find the latest information around voting YES and the Chairman’s message on the Bitmine website Bitmine staked ETH stands at 1,256,083 and MAVAN staking solution on track to launch Q1 2026 Bitmine remains the largest ‘fresh money’ buyer of ETH in the world Bitmine now owns 3.45% of the ETH token supply, nearly 70% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 6 months Bitmine Crypto + Total Cash Holdings + “Moonshots” total $14.0 billion, including 4.168…